Best 209 quotes in «opera quotes» category

Whatever comes, I'll take the good--and send the rest to hell.

When one would ask most modern artists, poets, writers and other status quo fueled semi-intellectuals who Machiavelli was - was that an opera singer?

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

Without Puccini, there is no opera; without opera, the world is an even drearier place than the evening news would have us think.

A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!

Vieron al anciano atravesar los raíles del tranvía; con pasos torpes, como si tropezara, encaminarse al parterre del centro de la plaza. Atravesó la primera hilera de coches detenidos y se adentró en la zona despejada. Súbitamente cayó de bruces, como si le hubieran dado un empujón. Pero, aparte de él, en la plaza no se veía un alma. Se oyó el impacto. Quedó tendido en el asfalto con los brazos extendidos y la cara contra el suelo. De lejos parecía una gigantesca cucaracha aplastada.

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!

A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?” “I’m not implying. I’m saying it.

As a horror movie fan, I was very obsessed with horror films. Still am. I love the genre. For me, horror films are opera, and they are... instead of consumption killing off the young lovers, it's Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. It is when the stakes are at their absolute largest in a story: whether somebody is going to live or die. In a way, it's just holding up a mirror to life.

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens in the bowels of the opera house.

excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

I am a living soap opera.

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts.

I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap operas, in season and out of season, that NFL programming gives television.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.